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Rotates site messages in a pulldown menu every few seconds.  A good way to conserve screen space and even allows the user to simply click the pulldown menu to view all the messages at once.  Cool!
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<select size=1 name="msg">
<option>You can lead a horse to water but cannot make it drink.
<option>Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana.
<option>Call me anything you like but don't call me late for dinner.
<option>I don't know what WW3 will be like but WW4 will be of sticks and stones.
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function rotate() {
menu = document.menuform.msg;
chosen = menu.selectedIndex;
menu.selectedIndex= (chosen == (menu.length-1)) ? 0 : chosen + 1;
setTimeout("rotate()",5000);
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rotate();
// End -->
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<tr><td BGCOLOR=yellow><font FACE="helvetica,arial,geneva"><b>JavaScript Source Code 3000:  Messages:  Rotating Pulldown Menu</b>
<p>Simply click inside the window below, use your cursor to highlight the script, and copy (type Control-c or Apple-c) the script into a new file in your text editor (such as Note Pad or Simple Text) and save (Control-s or Apple-s).  The script is yours!!!
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&lt;!-- ONE STEP TO INSTALL ROTATING PULLDOWN MENU:

  1.  Copy the coding into the BODY of your HTML document  --&gt;

&lt;!-- STEP ONE: Paste this code into the BODY of your HTML document  --&gt;

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&lt;!-- Original:  Dion (yobo42@hotmail.com) --&gt;
&lt;!-- Web Site:  http://www.iinet.net.au/~biab/ --&gt;

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&lt;form name=menuform&gt;
&lt;select size=1 name="msg"&gt;
&lt;option&gt;You can lead a horse to water but cannot make it drink.
&lt;option&gt;Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana.
&lt;option&gt;Call me anything you like but don't call me late for dinner.
&lt;option&gt;I don't know what WW3 will be like but WW4 will be of sticks and stones.
&lt;/select&gt;&lt;/form&gt;
&lt;script language="javascript"&gt;
&lt;!-- Begin
function rotate() {
menu = document.menuform.msg;
chosen = menu.selectedIndex;
menu.selectedIndex= (chosen == (menu.length-1)) ? 0 : chosen + 1;
setTimeout("rotate()",5000);
}
rotate();
// End --&gt;
&lt;/script&gt;

 

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